MINUTES OF THE INSTITUTE. 



November 4, 1909. — Regular monthly meeting, with 

 Vice President Heniy L. Broomall in the chair. The usual 

 monthly reports of the officers and committees were received. 

 Under the head of scientific business Robinson Tyndale pre- 

 sented two specimens of basalt rock from near Haida, in 

 Austria. These rocks are six sided, similar to the rocks of 

 the Giants' Causeway. The outcrop covers about an acre, 

 some of the stones being two or three metres long. Of late 

 years much of the stone has been removed for use as posts, 

 curbing, etc. Albert S. Barker exhibited a number of micro- 

 scopic specimens of various kinds. After discussion the 

 meeting adjourned. 



November ii, 1909 — Adjourned meeting. Lecture, 

 "The Indian No Problem," by General R. H. Pratt, U. S. 

 A., retired. 



December 2, 1909. — Regular monthly meeting, with 

 President T. Chalkley Palmer in the chair. The usual 

 monthly reports of officers and committees were received. 

 Horace G. Worrall, Alpheus W. Moon and General R. H. 

 Pratt were elected to membership. Mrs. A. Lewis Smith pre- 

 sented to the library a set of "Annals of the American 

 Academy of Political and Social Science." Under scientific 

 business a number of specimens were presented to the museum. 

 Among other things Albert S. Barker exhibited an ear of 

 Indian corn which showed the staminate flowers to have devel- 

 oped on the same spike as the pistillate flowers in which the 

 grain had matured. It was suggested that this was a case of 

 revision to an ancestral form. After general scientific discus- 

 sion the meeting adjourned. 



December 9, 1909. — Adjourned meeting. Lecture, 

 "Change of State of Matter," by Dr. Harold C. Barker, of 



